| Zucas said: Well I have been playing NSMB Wii and it is quite healling haha. Fun game with the right kind of difficulty. Platformers is where the heart is at. But when I play a game like MW2 I don't view myself as being the good guy or bad guy or shooting innocent people or not... I see it as digital animations and me controlling their actions. It's not real so it is hard for me to personally feel like I am doing something wrong. However, I do get the message the scene is trying to display and that is there is no good and bad in war. Both sides do things that are sickening and morally wrong. Actually for the most part, I found the level to be more offensive to Americans, if anyone, because most Americans don't like to accept that their government (namely CIA) has doen some immoral unreputable things. Things like this would be one of them (of course here there was another reason why it was going on haha). But the level is their to make the point that both sides are going to do whatever it costs to win losing all moral obligations. This is the reality of war displayed in a video game. If you have a problem with this scene then why don't you have a problem with any video game that displays war. Let's not be timely with our objections. |
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Word up yo. 
@The second paragraph
That's fine for you, but I suppose that you and I differ on the aspect of how the "reality" of the situation affects us. I definitely see where you're coming from, that it's not real... that it's more about the message than it is about what you're doing then and there. It's an unnerving look into the hell that war is (when a lot of people see it in itself as a noble endeavor). Still, for me to press that button, to "fire" upon the crowd... I wouldn't do it. I sorta pulled an IllegalPaladin and just kinda shot at random things like T.V.'s and other objects besides unarmed people (I'm glad IW didn't penalize me for that, kudos to them). I actually handed over the controller after a couple of minutes (I was just wondering if I would lose if I chose not to kill people).
But it does pose an interesting situation when the guards come in. They're innocent too. They're just doing their job... I know this is a work of fiction, but things like this happen every day around the world. So it just makes me think about the severity of what I'm doing, and why I'm doing it.
@The last sentence
I'm not sure if this was aimed at me... but I don't play war games in the first place (well, I just bought Reflex... but that's for multiplayer).
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